The Truthfulness website called FactCheck.org is itself decidedly BIASED toward the LEFT as the discussion that follows points out.

The ANNENBERG Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania is the organization behind the FactCheck.org website that is being consulted OFTEN by voters and media personalities alike to help them form opinions on the truthfulness of the claims being made by the McCain and Obama political ads as well as statements made on the Campaign Trail and in Presidential and Vice Presidential debates.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. is the Director of the ANNENBERG Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania which is the organization BEHIND the FactCheck.org truthfulness website.

Dr. Jamieson's newest book entitled Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment is a MAJOR HIT PIECE against the Conservative voices in the media on television, radio, and in print. View the books Table of Contents: http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/echochamber/

In Dr. Jamiesons biography on the APPC website, she states that during the 2004 general election she regularly appeared on NOW With Bill Moyers and The NewsHour, and throughout the 2008 campaign is appearing regularly on Bill Moyers Journal. http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/Bio.aspx?myUsername=kjamieson

In a 2003 interview with BuzzFlash.com, Bill Moyers said, "The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won."

Moyers went on to say that the American public has failed to react this fact because it is, "distracted by the media circus and news which has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes." In support of this statement Moyers referred to "the paradox of Rush Limbaugh [who is] ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero...

Whats the bottom line? FactCheck.org is a LEFT-BIASED organization that has sold itself as Politically NEUTRAL to Americas voters and media personnel.

The fact is, the ANNENBERG Public Policy Center (APPC), the sponsoring agency behind FastCheck.org, is itself supported by the same foundation, the ANNENBERG FOUNDATION, that Bill Ayers secured the 49.2 million dollars from to create the Chicago ANNENBERG Challenge philanthropic organization in which Barack Obama was the founding Chairman of the Board for and Ayers served as the grant writer of and co-Chair of for its two operating arms.

Well, that’s a shame if it was taken over by leftists. The founder, Walter H. Annenberg, was Ambassador to Great Britain during the Nixon administration. And according to Wikipedia: “the Reagans often celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Annenbergs.” So, it must have been Republican or at least impartial to start with. It would be interesting to know how the left-wingers took it over.

The fact is, the ANNENBERG Public Policy Center (APPC), the sponsoring agency behind FastCheck.org, is itself supported by the same foundation, the ANNENBERG FOUNDATION, that Bill Ayers secured the 49.2 million dollars from to create the Chicago ANNENBERG Challenge philanthropic organization in which Barack Obama was the founding Chairman of the Board for and Ayers served as the grant writer of and co-Chair of for its two operating arms.

Whoa! No wonder they have been getting their facts wrong in this election. When will this be aired on CNN?

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posted on 10/12/2008 4:12:21 PM PDT
by itsthejourney
(1 of every 10 people you pass in the mall is here illegally)

SOME HIGH PROFILE PERSON LIKE RUDY NEEDS TO SAY “OBAMA IS A TROJAN HORSE” - he has concealed his true politics so cleverly with his phony rhetoric, but once in power, his Marxists cronies will become entrenched in our country like a cancer.

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posted on 10/12/2008 4:13:33 PM PDT
by AlanGreenSpam
("Celebrate Diversity! Look at the world with all it's problems - Isn't "diversity" so beautiful?)

FactCheck.org is a nonprofit website[1] that describes its own goal as “[reducing] the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.” In its efforts, FactCheck says it is nonpartisan.[2] It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.[2]

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posted on 10/12/2008 5:30:30 PM PDT
by HelloooClareece
("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)

"Great Rudy Giuliani video! He nails it. SOME HIGH PROFILE PERSON LIKE RUDY NEEDS TO SAY OBAMA IS A TROJAN HORSE - he has concealed his true politics so cleverly with his phony rhetoric, but once in power, his Marxists cronies will become entrenched in our country like a cancer.

Yep!

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posted on 10/12/2008 9:36:59 PM PDT
by Matchett-PI
(2008 = The Year of the Toilet (for 'rats))

One of their two researchers, Seth Goldman, worked "at Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's campaign committee."

Here's some information on Brooks Jackson, the Director of Annenberg Political Fact Check

Brooks Jackson is a journalist who covered Washington and national politics for 32 years, reporting in turn for The Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and CNN. At CNN he pioneered the "adwatch" and "factcheck" form of stories debunking false and misleading political statements starting with the Presidential election of 1992. His investigative reporting for The AP and the Journal won several national awards. He is the author of two books: Honest Graft: Big Money and the American Political Process (Knopf, 1988) and Broken Promise: Why the Federal Election Commission Failed (Twentieth Century Fund: 1990).

“Nice artwork! Did you just photoshop that up based on the Trojan Horse idea???” ~ AlanGreenSpam

Wish I could take credit for it, but I can’t. I’ve kept it in my personal archives for future reference since at least December of 2006 and maybe even before that. It is posted in this 2006 thread that I saved:

Every so often, a public figure will speak a sentence that succinctly sums up his or her entire worldview in just a few words, exposing the core belief that is the wellspring of his or her every position on matters of consequence. Consider, for instance, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosis recent assertion: “If we [the U.S. military] leave Iraq, then the insurgents will leave Iraq, the terrorists will leave Iraq.”

That sentence tells us virtually everything we really need to know about the workings of Nancy Pelosis mind.

Using Walter Annenberg as a reason that something is republican is a red herring. He died in 2002, and is the foundation is run by his wife and children. Remember when Arianna Huffington was considered a right wing nut because she was married to a republican? So the Huffington Post should be considered a republican entity? In 1916 Heny Ford was suggested to be the Republican nominee for president, but today the Ford Foundation is one of the countrys largest source of funding for left wing organizations.
“When Henry Ford II eventually resigned from the Foundation’s Board of Trustees in 1977, he expressed his profound disgust with how the institution and most of its trustees had drifted so radically to the political left over time. Lamenting the Foundation’s rejection of the economic system that had made its very existence possible, Mr. Ford wrote in his resignation letter: “In effect, the Foundation is a creature of capitalism, a statement that, I’m sure, would be shocking to many professional staff people in the field of philanthropy. It is hard to discern recognition of this fact in anything the Foundation does. It is even more difficult to find an understanding of this in many of the institutions, particularly the universities, that are the beneficiaries of the Foundation’s grant programs.”

How did they get control of the Annenberg Foundation? The same way leftists took over Stanford University, the Ford Foundation, the city of San Francisco, and the Heinz Foundations.

The fact that Annenberg was appointed by Nixon doesn’t make him Newt Gingrich. Ford, Reagan and Bush appointed Stevens, Kennedy, and Souter to the Supreme Court and all of them are moderate to very liberal. Souter is almost indistinguishable from Ginsberg and Breyer.

Liberalism/Socialism/Communism is a disease, like Ebola, which spreads and destroys everything it touches.

“The fact is, the ANNENBERG Public Policy Center (APPC), the sponsoring agency behind FastCheck.org, is itself supported by the same foundation, the ANNENBERG FOUNDATION, that Bill Ayers secured the 49.2 million dollars from to create the Chicago ANNENBERG Challenge philanthropic organization in which Barack Obama was the founding Chairman of the Board for and Ayers served as the grant writer of and co-Chair of for its two operating arms. “

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